Python – TypeError: descriptor ‘strftime’ requires a ‘datetime.date’ object but received a ‘Text’

I have a variable testeddate which has a date in text format like 4/25/2015. I am trying convert it to %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S as follows:

dt_str = datetime.strftime(testeddate,'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S')
but I am running into this error:
TypeError: descriptor 'strftime' requires a 'datetime.date' object but received a 'Text'
How do I resolve this?
You have a Text object. The strftime function requires a datetime object. The code below takes an intermediate step of converting your Text to a datetime using strptime
import datetime
testeddate = '4/25/2015'
dt_obj = datetime.datetime.strptime(testeddate,'%m/%d/%Y')
At this point, the dt_obj is a datetime object. This means we can easily convert it to a string with any format. In your particular case:
dt_str = datetime.datetime.strftime(dt_obj,'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S')
The dt_str now is:
'2015-04-25 00:00:00'
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